MOTORISTS were feared dead and injured in a six-vehicle pile-up on the M6 in Warwickshire this morning.

Two lorries and a black car are believed to have been involved a rear-end crash on the southbound section between junctions three at Bedworth and two at Walsgrave Triangle, under the Shilton Lane bridge, at about 8.40am. A further three cars were indirectly involved.

Eye-witness Simon Woodhouse said the black car at the front of the accident had been crushed by a yellow shipping lorry which was then hit by a blue truck carrying heavy steel coils.

Mr Woodhouse, 36, who owns a haulage company in Coventry, said: I do not think the car driver could have survived. It looks as though the driver of the blue lorry was still alive, he was moving his arm.

In all my years as an international lorry driver I have never ever seen an accident like this. Its a pitiful scene. It put a lump in my throat, a very very humbling experience.

Three other cars were involved but looks as though they got away with it.

Warwickshire fire crews and the Warwickshire air ambulance were at the scene.